sexta-feira, 26 de dezembro de 2008

Bangkok Marathon, November 2008


Starting marathon in the middle of the night was not fun at all, how should you spend your time before the start? sleep or just seat and wait? I decided to wait, it was quite boring and didn´t feel fresh as I used to be when have started other marathons.

Well, should not complain this much, even though the high temperatures and humidity it was good experience to run a marathon in Bangkok, city where I live presently.

I´ve started at 3:30 am, I guess the main reason to start this early is mainly to avoid polution and get the lower night temperatures, between 26º and 28º celcius. Most of the runners already started at 2:00, I was in the second group since would finish before 4 hour.

It was more difficult than the Porto one, had to drink water from plastic glasses whitch turn to be not easy for the constant hidratation that I need to get this type of conditions. The first part I was quite often alone, but in the second half of the race I´ve started passing the slower runners from the first group whitch was good for my motivation.

Finish in 236 position in total of 1751 runners with 3:47:49, not good time but not bad position!!

And this is it, my second marathon in two month!!

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